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Sharing a USB Printer

This chapter describes how you can share a USB printer via your P-2812HNU-51c.

11.1 Overview

The P-2812HNU-51c allows you to share a USB printer on your LAN. You can do this by connecting a USB printer to one of the USB ports on the P-2812HNU-51c and then allowing the computers connected to your network to communicate with the print server (P-2812HNU-51c) using the Internet Printing Protocol.

Figure 104 Sharing a USB Printer

11.1.1What You Can Do in this chapter

The Print Server screen lets you enable the print server on the P-2812HNU-51c and get the model name of the associated printer. (Section 11.4 on page 241).

This chapter also shows you examples of adding a new network printer using Windows (Section 11.5 on page 242) and adding a new network printer using Macintosh OS X (Section 11.6 on page 245)

 

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